Kate Arnold’s debut poetry collection to be published in September 2024
2nd September 2024
Student success: Kate Arnold’s debut poetry collection to be published this September
We have caught up with our alumni Kate Arnold whose debut poetry collection, Kicking at Tombstones, is due out on 3rd September.
Kate told us that it had all started just before Christmas of last year. “The owner of Black Eyes publishing house came to a gig we did just before Christmas and asked afterwards whether we had ever considered a collection of Dead Anyway lyrics. Obviously, although I’ve had poetry published in magazines, it had always been a dream of mine to have a collection published, so I jumped at the chance.
It was quite difficult choosing which of the over 80 pieces I’ve written for Dead Anyway to include in the collection as, although some of the tracks go down well live, I found that they didn’t really work as poetry on the page – and it was important to me that they did. I settled on 26 in the end, and they are arranged chronologically from our first EP (2020) to a track from out new album ‘Tough, Listen’ which is coming out in the next couple of months.
Artwork from local artists which we had used for covers of our releases have been included, and it’s lovely to be able to showcase their considerable talents too.”
Huge congratulations, Kate! .We can’t wait to get our hands on a copy of your poetry collection 🙂